From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Michael Schaller <misch@google.com>,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New partition on loop device doesn't appear in /dev anymore with kernel 5.17.0 and newer (repro script included)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 09:49:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220606074904.GA3145@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ypx+qusVyLJEEb/r@eldamar.lan>
On Sun, Jun 05, 2022 at 12:00:10PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 03:23:13PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 03:21:28PM +0200, Michael Schaller wrote:
> > > Thank you, Christoph! <3
> > >
> > > Patch https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220527055806.1972352-1-hch@lst.de/
> > > does indeed fix the issue.
> > >
> > > Could this patch also be backported to 5.17 and 5.18?
> >
> > It should get picked up automatically based on the fixes tag as soon
> > as it hits mainline.
>
> As it does not apply cleanly to older versions, this probably will
> need a sperate turnaround, but AFAICS it's just because of
> a0e286b6a5b6 ("loop: remove lo_refcount and avoid lo_mutex in ->open /
> ->release") changing context of the fourth hunk in
> drivers/block/loop.c .
Normally the stable process takes care of such trivial changes. I'll
wait for the next batch and if not take care of it manually.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-06 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2022-06-03 12:49 ` New partition on loop device doesn't appear in /dev anymore with kernel 5.17.0 and newer (repro script included) Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-03 13:21 ` Michael Schaller
2022-06-03 13:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-05 10:00 ` Salvatore Bonaccorso
2022-06-06 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-06-09 4:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-09 7:10 ` Michael Schaller
2022-06-21 7:55 ` Michael Schaller
2022-06-03 12:46 Michael Schaller
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